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When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...

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Scholastic UK has acquired The Crystal Club: Drama, Karma and Chaos, a highly illustrated middle-grade series about “embracing your weirdness” from author–illustrator Katie Abey. Fiction editor ...

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The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside — but for the Artemis II astronauts, the capsule taking them to the vicinity of the moon has already proved to be larger than ...

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Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has died. The celebrated documentarian started making documentaries that captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life in the mid 1960s and did not stop until 2023.